From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 09:04:02 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <94f361d12533ee74d9af4827460b357b@ladd.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: <46914d2c-437d-406e-a928-123f4d09f9f7@u15g2000prd.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] how about intel D510MO Topicbox-Message-UUID: fdd28a6c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > However since the Atom doesn't support ECC RAM (for that matter > neither does the mighty Core i7) I'm somewhat cautious about trusting > it as an always on file server without additional checksums in > software. Pretty much all AMD chips support ECC RAM, although of > course mobo/BIOS support is a different matter. i think you're right. ecc hardware is hard to live without. i have not used ecc memory with amd hardware. so i can't comment on that. but if you want ecc with intel hardware, you just need to get the xeon version of the processor: socket 1156 core iX xeon [elwx]3[45]xx socket 1366 core i7 xeon [elwx][35][56]xx you can get the xeon versions at a similar price to the core iX versions, but usually the frequency is a bit lower. ecc motherboards can be competitive, too. it looks like newegg is selling the x8sil for $159. it comes with two fairly nice i82574 nics. i can verify that this motherboard works correctly. - erik